Business How Business Can Build and Maintain Trust (via HBR) Data protection and cybersecurity Treating employees well Ethical business practices Admitting mistakes quickly and honestly Career Family Ghosts in the Executive Suite (via HBR) I think the advice in this…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 6
Accountability 3 Strategies for Holding Yourself Accountable (via HBR) Enlist an accountability partner Go public in declaring and sharing goals Change your environment Behavior change The “New You” Business (via HBR) Although the article’s focus is on how to use…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 5
Behavioral science How To Stay Motivated So You Exceed Your Goals (via Behavioral Grooves) People feel good when they are making progress, especially when it’s more than they expect The middle problem — beginning = enthusiasm, ending = finish is…
Academy 1/35 USMC AH-1Z – Step 1c
This step was about prepping the inside of the fuselage. I didn’t encounter anything out of the ordinary here — gluing, filling some ejector pin marks, painting. Here’s the gallery of 36 images of this step. This step took about…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 4
Culture How Leaders Can Build Connection in a Disconnected Workplace (via HBR) Make workplace connection a ritual. Friendships need positivity, vulnerability, and consistency. Make it easy to ask for support. Make onboarding more experiential. Make recharging a reality. Learning and…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 3
Agile Dependencies Are Killing Your Agile Flow at Scale (via Mountain Goat Software) This post covers how dependencies can become bottlenecks if not managed well. It also describes ways to work through those dependencies, as they will likely never truly…
Academy 1/35 USMC AH-1Z – Step A
Note: I’m identifying the steps that can be done independently with letters, and dependent ones with numbers. The two pieces for this step are the gearbox and the tail rotor that will be put on the main body once it’s…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 2
Career The Upside of Feeling Uncertain About Your Career (via HBR) “You hear colleagues say things like, ‘I want to make a difference’ and ‘I want to feel like my work matters,’ and privately fret, ‘Well, I want those things…
Professional Development – 2022 – Week 1
Org structure Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts (via Software Lead Weekly) This post covers common org chart arrangements and how different incentives create different outcomes. Engineering, product, security, and flat-structured orgs have pros and cons.
Year in Review: 2021
I continue to be amazed by how much I accomplish personally and professionally each year. Some highs Served as a panelist for a Scrum Master panel session hosted by Clayton Mobile Homes Played new video games: Warhammer: Vermintide II Nine…